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suaq Peninsula from 71° to 73° N. Lat.) I have already published re- 
ports (see bibliography), the others are published here for the first time. 
In publishing this work, which sums up everything known about 
the distribution of the higher plants on Disko and the adjacent parts 
of W. Greenland, I am far from supposing that no new discoveries 
can be made. The country is so vast, the means of communication so 
primitive, and the summer so short, that, in spite of all care, I have 
only succeeded in investigating a small part of it thoroughly; but the 
obligations of my official work compel me for the time being to finish 
and to offer to the public my results in as complete a state as circum- 
stances have permitted me. 
As an investigation of the flora of Disko was originally my sole 
aim and always in this connection my chief object, | have throughout 
the following list kept it by itself. And as the flora of Disko, as already 
mentioned, has been oftenest examined, a more detailed account of the 
growth of our knowledge of the flora in a separate arctic region may 
be justified, as from this conclusions can be drawn, to a certain extent, 
concerning the greater or lesser reliability of results from other arctic 
regions when used as a basis for more extensive plant-geographical 
discussions. 
